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blade

1. the flattened expanded part of a leaf, sepal, or petal
2. the long narrow leaf of a grass or related plant
3. Archaeol a long thin flake of flint, possibly used as a tool
4. short for shoulder blade
Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

blade

[blād]
(botany)
The broad, flat portion of a leaf. Also known as lamina.
(electricity)
A flat moving conductor in a switch.
(engineering)
A broad, flat arm of a fan, turbine, or propeller.
The broad, flat surface of a bulldozer or snowplow by which the material is moved.
The part of a cutting tool, such as a saw, that cuts.
(vertebrate zoology)
A single plate of baleen.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

blade

1. The flat metal surface of a trowel with which plaster is applied.
2. The cutting part of a knife, plane, etc.
3. The broad, slightly concave surface of a bulldozer, or the like, which pushes the material being moved.
4. One of the principal rafters of a roof.
5. To remove, spread, or level a material such as dirt, or gravel by the use of a grader.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

blade

i. A rotating airfoil driven by a helicopter engine to produce vertical lift. Also called a rotor blade.
ii. A rotating airfoil driven by an aircraft engine to produce a thrust force approximately in line with the longitudinal axis of the aircraft. Also called a propeller blade. It is restricted to that part of a propeller arm or of a rotating wing from the shank outward (i.e., that part having an efficient airfoil shape that cleaves the air). See propeller.
iii. A rotating airfoil that is a part of a compressor in a gas turbine engine. Also called a compressor blade.
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blade

One component in a system that is designed to accept some number of components (blades). Blades can be individual servers or clients that plug into a single cabinet or individual port cards that add connectivity to a switch. A blade is typically a hot swappable hardware device, but a software architecture could use the blade terminology as well. See blade server and blade PC.
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According to the group engagement model, distributive and procedural justice offer the behavioral guidance and consistent treatment necessary for meeting work goals so employees are willing to generate group identities and pursue desired outcomes (Tyler and Blader, 2003).
Blader analyzed came from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Hospital Discharge Survey and also showed that in 1996-2007, payment for the psychiatric hospitalizations underwent a significant shift away from private insurance coverage and toward an increased share of the hospitalizations paid for by government agencies, most typically Medicaid.
In addition, Tyler and Blader (2000) posit that group identification provides alternative explanations for what people mean when they say that an organization or a social institution's procedures are fair.
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According to the group engagement model (Blader & Tyler, 2009; Tyler & Blader, 2003), process fairness can offer a foundation upon which the individual employee can evaluate his or her status in an organization; when individuals feel that there is fairness in their interacting process with the organization and the people in authority, they believe they are respected and become proud of the organization in which they are employed, thereby being stimulated to identify with the organization, which, in turn, moves them to perform discretionary (e.g., cooperative) behaviors.
Blader analyzed came from the National Hospital Discharge Survey, and also showed that in 1996-2007, payment for the psychiatric hospitalizations underwent a significant shift away from private insurance coverage and toward an increased share of the hospitalizations paid for by government agencies, most typically Medicaid.
According to the group engagement model (Tyler and Blader, 2003), individuals make two basic status evaluations with regard to the places in which they work--an organizational status evaluation and an evaluation of their own status within the organization.
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A topic of increasing interest in management and psychological academic areas over the last three decades is procedural justice (Blader & Tyler, 2009; Colquitt et al., 2013), that is, the perceived fairness of organizational processes and procedures that lead to decision outcomes.
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